From Days Gone By June 2, 1922

June 2, 1922.
    The Wrightsville Highschool takes a break now after one of the best commencement programs ever staged. Rehobeth, near Kite, gets the next session of the Johnson County Singing Convention just beating out Gumlog.
    Sell the roosters along with the hens that doesn't pay their board. That's the advice from Miss Clemmie Massey. She suggests all the people who have chickens to thin out the unprofitable ones by marketing them at the upcoming sale on June 6th. Fryers are bringing good prices and are in much demand all over the country. Miss Massey wants to make this the biggest chicken and hog sale ever had here.
    Messrs. Lovett & Hutcheson, saw mill men, have recently put out a goodly amount of cash for a tract of timber located near the city upon which they will soon locate their saw mill plant. It is the timber that belongs to Mr. W. N. Snell they purchased and contains about a million feet of fair lumber or some less possibly.
    Cotton has gone up to $4.00 peer bale higher than it was a year ago at $3.75, but who has any to sell? Most all the farmers of this county have sold out, but few holding on to any of the staple.
    Dr. W. J. Flanders is demonstrating his farming ability this year and recently exhibited at the Headlight office a stalk of cotton from a field he is tending. This cotton is knee high by now and is maturing squares a plenty and with an absent enemy will make brag returns.
    Mr. David King, now of Atlanta and one time a ball player in Wrightsville was in the city for a short visit. He lived here a while in 1916 and played baseball and his many friends were glad to see him. He had came to the burial of Mrs. Kitchens.
    The LaGrange Graphic quoting notes from their college, says, "The last recital of the year, but certainly one of the most enjoyable, was given by Miss Mary Moore Johnson and Miss Ora Dominey." Miss Johnson received a certificate in music from LaGrange College.
    According to a report from Ford Motor Company in Detroit, a daily average of 5,210 retail sales of Ford cars and trucks had been reached by the close of April in the United States alone. Sales both domestic and foreign totaled 127,249 a new high for Ford.
    What about putting in the sewerage in Wrightsville? The best interests of the city and the health of its people are compelling forces that back every act of the officials who have any great desire for the advancement and uplift of it in everything that pertains to the continued upbuilding of the industrial and civic life of the town.
    It does seem quite a task and a huge undertaking for a place no larger than Wrightsville to put in a thorough system of sewerage but our city ever lays aside its swaddling clothes and becomes a full pledged up-to-date place, such improvements must come and the sooner the better. The advancement of our business interests demands it.